Neo-Dada was a movement with audio, visual and literary manifestations that had similarities in method or intent with earlier Dada artwork. In the United States the term was popularized by Barbara Rose in the 1960s and refers primarily, although not exclusively, to work created in that and the preceding decade. There was also an international dimension to the movement, particularly in Japan and in Europe, serving as the foundation of Fluxus, Pop Art and Nouveau réalisme.
Neo-Dada was exemplified by its use of modern materials, popular imagery, and absurdist contrast. It was a reaction to the personal emotionalism of Abstract Expressionism and, taking a lead from the practice of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, denied traditional concepts of aesthetics.
Interest in Dada followed in the wake of documentary publications, such as Robert Motherwell’s The Dada Painters and Poets (1951) and German language publications from 1957 and later, to which some former Dadaists contributed. However, several of the original Dadaists denounced the label Neo-Dada, especially in its U.S. manifestations, on the grounds that the work was derivative rather than making fresh discoveries; that aesthetic pleasure was found in what were originally protests against bourgeois aesthetic concepts; and because it pandered to commercialism.
Neo Dada is a music album by the Norwegian composer and artist Jono El Grande, released 2009.
Got a call
From a friend.
Tried to smile
As I lay in my bed.
All I heard
Where the voices in my head.
Why do you
Have to be
So much more
Then I could hope for me.
Honestly, all I feel is jealously.
And I know that it's wrong
My dreams were at a long
So there's no need to fight this battle every night
Cause I will get there
I have what it takes to survive.
It's over! Glad it's over!
All the doubts and questions in my head.
I'm better off without instead
Now or never, so I just gotta try
To the man I was today I say goodbye.
Tomorrow I will fly, fly, fly.
Watch me fly, fly, fly.
When they talk
When they stare.
It feels just,
Like I'm not even there.
And I say, that I don't really care.
But the truth is that it
Gets to me and it shakes my belief
In myself am what I aim to be
And I know that it's wrong
My dreams were at a long
So there's no need to fight this battle every night
Cause I will get there
I have what it takes to survive.
It's over! Glad it's over!
All the doubts and questions in my head.
I'm better off without instead
Now or never, so I just gotta try
To the man I was today I say goodbye.
And now the finish line
Seems a distant side.
But imma put my eye
On the final prize.
However it longs to takes
I will bend or break, cause this could be, the moment of my life.
It's over! Glad it's over!
All the doubts and questions in my head.
I'm better off without instead
Now or never, so I just gotta try
To the man I was today I say goodbye.
Tomorrow I will fly, fly, fly.
Watch me fly, fly, fly.
Watch me fly, fly, fly.